Friday, 18 February 2011

What is it?

Here is a rather unusual looking object when viewed from this angle. They are not used much nowadays unless you have not quite got into the 21st century or like me, you are bringing old fashioned ...err ... things up to date.

AAhhh, I'll just slide another comment in here -- I think I might know. Of course, as you say, the view is a little different to what one might expect. Does it have, I wonder, anything (even if only remotely) to do with what you discovered recently in those boxes you've just acquired?

I haven't commented yet, because I have no idea what it is, though from the clues K gave and you in your last remark, I'm going to guess it maybe a hand held slide picture viewer. Kay is with us and we're all intent upon seeing this treasure trove of family photos you have found.

Kaybee is right, but Chris is the only one to say exactly what it is. Congratulations to both of you. It is very old fashioned looking despite the decade it came from, looking rather 50s in style. I was setting it down on the desk one day when I realised it looked like something out of the BBC Dr Who series, so I thought it may make a good picture quiz.

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Happily married, retired. The name SNAFU was accidental, I got cross with Blogger because my name is so commonplace any variation I could think of was already in use. Computer systems do not do sarcasm and so it accepted my comment as my user name. I am not hiding my identity, my name is Pete Morris. Lifelong geek and technophile. Bookshelves in nearly every room of the house, from Blyton to Einstein. Spent most of my working life training adults in geeky stuff, from basic electrics to computer systems. My heroes are, amongst others, Richard Feynman, Freeman Dyson and Eric Laithwaite and if you don’t need to look them up in Wikipedia then you are my kind of geek. .